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Lying in Wait, (painting)

Artist:

Huntington, Daniel b. 1816

Type:

Paintings

Exhibition Catalogs

Date:

1876

Notes:

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 421 (Sale info: $1000.00).

"b. New York City, 1816. Pupil of S.F.B. Morse, N.A., 1835-36. Afterward studied anatomy and drawing in Rome, with Ferrero, and drew at the French Academy (the old villa Medici) in the same city. He studied one year in Paris, and a year in London; pupil of the Royal Academy and member of the Kensington life Academy, 1837. Elected member of the National Academy, 1840. president of the Academy, 1862-69, and again elected in 1877, remaining in office to the present time. Also president of the American Art Union. " Few of our painters have exhibited greater versatility of talent, or more broad and pure artistic sympathies. - Tuckerman, Book of the Artists." [P. 83.]

Illustrated Catalogue of Works of Art in the Art Building of the Southern Exposition at Louisville, Ky. August 16 - October 25, 1884. Prepared by Charles M. Kurtz, Director of the Art Department. Editor of National Academy Notes and the Art Union Magazine. Published for the Art Committee by John P. Morton and Company.